#everyone deserves good food

[dhyzenmedia]

Why Central Oregon World Food Day?

By Sharon Maier-Kennelly, HDFFA Executive Director In June, I was privileged to become the High Desert Food and Farm Alliance’s second Executive Director. The organization’s…

[yakozy]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone!! BUN-CHAN IN THE TREE!!

made by my lovely bestie @orangenottangerine ❤️🎄

[kukkakisu]

Double posting today because I wanted to draw something quick for May Day as well. So, to everyone who celebrates it; eat and rest well today! The spring is finally just around the corner! ♥

[yetanothergreyjedi]

Very open ended! I will write some stuff, hopefully its helpful, if you have specific questions, please ask!

Making good food is mostly learning from experience, and trying not to mess up so badly that something is inedible in the meantime.

I've been cooking for a long time but only really learned some of this stuff in the past 2 years bc when you're going off a recipe you don't always internalize the reasons it wants you to do something. A lot of stuff that's probably common knowledge doesn't really get passed down bc its built through habit.

Cooking and baking are very different bc in baking if you mess up the ratios it will not come out right. Cooking however, does not have this problem!

A smidge= however much you like.

Which means start with a small amount and if you think it tastes bad, either add more or less next time. Dont be afraid to sprinkle some seasoning onto your hand and taste it. Decide which ones taste good together and which don't. If you look at multiple recipes you can usually see some patterns in which seasonings are paired with what style of dishes.

1: what to make?

So like a suprisingly about of meals are just protein + carb + vegetable. Like a guarantee, if you scroll through any recipe website, that will be the majority of what you see. Without direction, we focus on that.

So pick a protein aka meat or meat substitute (if you're vegetarian sorry not really my area of expertise)

Pick a carb: bread, noodles, potatoes

Pick a vegetable

AND pick a jar.

A jar you ask? Well, seasonings are complicated and I'm lazy. I cheat here. I don't do well with the whole 53728 spices in the spice rack and knowing what to use when.

What I do, is I did a quick search for flavor profiles I like, for example italian food, I find a recipe for Italian seasoning mixes. Then I put that seasoning mix in a small jar. Whenever I have italian food, I scoop some seasoning from the jar and onto my food whenever I categorize a meal as Italian.

This can be repeated for as many flavor profiles as you like.

Then to spice up the meal all you have to do is choose which jar.

2: how are you cooking?

Oven? Pan on stove? Boiling everything? Soup? Shoving it all in the rice cooker?(great when you have rice)

Same principles for all but how you cook it will effect the end result greatly. I personally hate oven roasted food. I think its dry and gross and it sometimes leaves little bits of char on my food and I hate it. (Except bacon, bacon is best roasted in my opinion)

Boiled vegetables tend to have a reputation for being soggy and bland but I love them.

Tossing them into a pan with butter=buttery food

Learn what you prefer and you'll enjoy your own cooking better.

3: oil

Use👏 oil👏 or👏 butter👏 or 👏something! Heat it in the pan for just long enough to melt the butter/for the pan to feel warm when you hold your hand above it. Then add your meat/veggies, this makes a difference I promise!

(Note: this does not apply to bacon)

4: onion and garlic

Dont understemated the power of onions when it comes to giving flavor. I made this mistake for over a year. Cook an onion with whatever your making. I cook a lot of onion over the weekend and put it in the fridge to quickly add a spoonful or 4 of onion to whatever meal I'm making.

Same with garlic. And to be clear, i mean cloves of garlic, not garlic powder or the canned garlic preserve. I thought I didn't like garlic for like all of my childhood bc my mom bought the garlic in a refrigeratable jar and just added spoonfuls. These are not the same as fresh garlic.

5:salt

Salt while cooking. While whatever it is is still raw idealy. (Do NOT salt bacon)

Just sprinkle some over like you do when you salt your already cooked food. You can always add more later, and removing salt is not usually possible. You will get the feel for this as time goes on.

(Fun fact, you will crave more salt when its hot out, keep weather in mind)

6: Add jar seasonings to food. Start with a small amount, scale up if it needs more. Or just go nuts with it? Spilled a jar once, all over my chicken. It was good, decided I needed to add more in the future. Idk, this is the big smidge zone. You gotta decide how much you like. Take notes if it helps.

SAUCES

Ngl I'm still working out a system for these but sometimes the only difference between 537 recipes on the recipe website is what sause they used. This is what elevates the boring meals of meat noodle veggies, into great meals. My brief time using hellofresh taught me that I could do all of it better myself if I just learned how to make sauses.

Most of these can be as simple as getting some chicken stock concentrate and a strong herb (like dill or rosemary or whatever you like I guess?) into the pan you used for your meat with a little sour cream and a splash of water to keep stuff from burning. Once melted and warm: sauce

Store bought sauses, too! Just today, pork rice and grean beans became teriyaki pork rice and beans just by dumping some sause on and mixing it up. I just cooked all that by throwing it all in the rice maker with some butter salt and garlic. Cost like 1 spoon when it could've been 6.

Anyway its almost 11pm here and I need to sleep so! Night!

Not op of that post, but tell me what you want to cook Scar, I will help best I can through the screen

Okay. I've got a kitchen. I've got ingredients. (We're missing rice) There is a pan and a stove.

What tf do I do.

[lpsgirl109]

Its time I confess my love for Bridgette from Descendants The Rise of Red. I'm so sorry they did that to you girl you didn't deserve any of it

[possiblyfunny]

With all the Missing Numbers Doodles popping up today, I finally found it in me to actually doodle and not care about how it looked. Anyways—

Here is Aster’s Halloween Costume! I didn’t color it, but Aster is Little Red Riding Hood and Del is the Werewolf. He’s not trick-or-treating, by the way—he’s just handing out king-sized chocolate bars to everyone he passes while walking around!

It’s not much- Just a goofy little thing to celebrate the holiday. Happy Halloween, everyone!

(Psst-! Hey, @100nebulas ! Starry! I know it’s not a lot, but I promised! Here’s your small dose of Aster content :])

[problemnyatic]

I would rather a hundred million people get free shit they don't deserve than one single person go without basic necessities.

[ajdrawshq]

i can almost guarantee ive said it before but. he would thrive in a zero escape game

[floral-hex]

woke up at 4am feeling the weight of my life crushing me, so I’ve been sitting out in my car for the last couple of hours because I just need. to. be. somewhere else.

[itsalwaysdark]

i just fucking hate having ptsd all of it. so many stupid fucking things send me into fucking hysterics it sucks and i hate it and i dont want itttt anymore i dont want it.

[pirates-and-ninja-lover]

fuck politics btw <3

[silverandebony]

oh hey trauma surrounding watching other people eat while you, if you're very lucky, get something approximately equivalent, but more realistically either get something significantly worse or have to provide your own unappetizing food. what's up, i didn't miss you

[notmoreflippingelves]

Different anon, but after the ask post, now I kinda wanna know what other Carla ships you like. She’s so underrated and underutilised in fanworks.

I've seen her occasionally with Gabe and Marzel --and you know I like them both as options, especially the latter. I'm also somewhat intrigued about her with Naomi, Chloe, and Marisa as well. (And on a related note, the thought of Naomi/Gabe/Carla OT3 makes me 👀. Mateo/Gabe/Carla as well albeit to a lesser extent since I am rather meh about Mateo most of the time).

But honestly, I think the Carla ship that would make me most curious is Carla/Valentina.

[fragglerockopinions]

The worst thing about suffering is that it still hurts when the danger is over but no one cares about it anymore because it shouldn't hurt. No one will ever say "I'm sorry that happened to you" especially when they barely say "I'm sorry that's happening."

[sundays-mutt]

do you ever have a moment where you realize like. there's like not a single human being in the world above or below you like ever in any way. not really.

[startersword]

Manifesting good food for myself and others today...! 🙏🏽